Florida cyclone kills children and destroys homes
A hurricane swept across Alachua Bradford and Columbia counties in Florida causing severe damage. Near Lake Butler two children died when a tornado struck Hale and surrounding areas. About twenty houses were unroofed and crops and fruit trees ruined. Total property losses estimated at 1,009,000 dollars as communications remained down and trains disrupted.
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Florida
Lake Butler
Alachihua
Bradford
Columbia
Hale
Tampa
Florida storm Leaves Vast Crop Loss and Wreckage
The report details widespread damage from a September storm across western and southern Florida. Citrus crops including oranges and pineapples suffer heavy losses, up to half the harvest in some areas, with many coastal towns like Cedar Keys Pensacola Fort Meyers St Petersburg Punta Gorda and Punta Rassa damaged. Communications collapse and destruction of pineapple sheds and pine trees impact the turpentine industry. wrecks along the Florida coast are sighted by ships including a Standard Oil barge and a Bilbao steamship.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Cedar Keys
Pensacola
Fort Meyers
St. Petersburg
Punta Gorda
Punta Rassa
Heavy Snow Hits Cheyenne Albany County Grain Loss
Heavy snow continues in Cheyenne and nearby areas with rapid meltage. Laramie reports eighteen inches in twenty four hours. Albany County grain crops believed ruined. Northern Colorado storm brings widespread snowfall and blizzard conditions with ten feet reported in some mountains. Postmaster General designates Inspector Letherman to represent at New York hearing on Beavers subpoena.
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Laramie
Albany County
Denver
Washington
Hoyt
New York
George W. Beavers
Postoffice Department
Postoffice
Lawrence Letherman
Fierce encounter near Kesre between Turkish troops and brigands
Chekib Bey informed Acting Secretary Adee of a Turkish cable report detailing a clash near Kesre where Turkish forces killed over a hundred Bulgarian brigands and captured many. The minister says order may return in the region as brigands flee or surrender, and notes the Bulgarian revolutionary society asks the sultan for a pardon, which is unlikely. Beirut remains quiet.
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Washington
Chekib Bey
State Department
Adee
Kes
Beirut
Seventeen Charges Filed Against Pawnee Agency Superintendent
S M Brosius, special agent of the Indian Rights association, has prepared seventeen specific charges against George S Harvey, Pawnee Indian sub agency superintendent, alleging brutality to children, irregularities in leasing and sale of lands, and misusing Indian funds for personal and bank benefit. Inspector Mc Nichols of the India department is at Pawnee reviewing the accusations.
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Inspector McNichols
India Department
Pawnee
Brosius
Tragedy: Indiana Clerk Dies by Suicide After Loss
Robert Stockwell Hatcher of Lafayette Ind shot himself in a Planters hotel room after telegram informed him of his wife’s death. The 40 year old was a clerk in the office of Walter B. Stevens for the Louisiana Purchase exposition and previously a reading clerk in the Washington house. Mrs Hatcher was corresponding secretary general of the Daughters of the American Revolution at her death.
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St. Louis
Robert Stockwell Hatcher
Lafayette
Ind
Planters Hotel
Hatcher
Walter B. Stevens
House of Representatives
Washington
the Daughters of the American Revolution
Motions Seek Revocation of Judge for Tillman Trial
In Spartanburg South Carolina attorneys for the commonwealth filed a motion before Chief Justice Pope seeking revocation of the order appointing Judge Townsend to preside at the Lexington court for James H Tillman murder trial of M G Gonzales. Prosecution raised only technical objections. Judge Pope to rule later. The term begins Sept 21 and is expected to last about two weeks.
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Spartanburg
S. C
Pope
Commonwealth of South Carolina
James H. Tillman
M. G. Gonzales
Townsend
Lexington
Tillman
Duel Ends in Death Near Abbita Springs Louisiana
Frank Allison and Marshall McGhee, rivals for a woman's hand, dueled at Laithshook campground four miles from Abbita Springs. At ten paces both fired on command and fell dead, marking a fatal duel in St Taminy parish.
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Chicago
Record-Herald
Abbita Springs
Frank Allison
Marshall McGhee
St. Tammany Parish
Laithshook
Allison
McGhee
Great Purchase Near San Luis Potosi From Texas Colonists
A. Brumbeaugh and partners bought 100000 acres near San Luis Potosi at about one dollar per acre. They plan to colonize 200 families from northwest Texas. The Mexican government will grant ten years exemption from taxation to the colonists.
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Brumbeaugh
San Luis Potosi
Texas
Letter Intercepted in Manila Reveals Insurgent Support
A intercepted Manila letter to Artemio Artice, ex insurgent general in Hongkong, sent from here after deportation in 1897, claims funds will be sent and bears signatures of prominent insurrectos. The government authorizes Moros enlistment in the constabulary. Also mentions bottled remedies and prices from E. C. DeVitt Co.
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Manila
Artemio Artice
Hongkong
N. M. McDoguald
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